Eliminate vs Strangle - What's the difference?
eliminate | strangle |
(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
To stifle or suppress an action.
To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between eliminate and strangle
is that eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
while strangle is to kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle. eliminate
English
Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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Synonyms
* See also * abrogate * abolishSynonyms
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strangle
English
Verb
(strangl)- He strangled his wife and dissolved the body in acid.
- She strangled a scream.
- The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
- Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?